Yianni Cartledge

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Adjunct at Flinders University

In 1912, Ikaria, a Greek island in the North Aegean Sea, seceded from the Ottoman Empire in a short-lived Revolution, becoming the independent ‘Free State of Ikaria’ for nearly five months. Consequently, a culture of radicalism grew on the island, fuelled by emerging fascism in Greece and Europe, WWII, andthe Greek Civil War (1946–1949), where Ikar...

Book Review: The Transnational Voices of Australia's Migrant and Minority Press. By Catherine Dewhirst & Richard Scully (eds.) (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan/Springer Nature, 2020) and Voices of Challenge in Australia's Migrant and Minority Press. By Catherine Dewhirst & Richard Scully (eds.) (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan/Springer Nature, 2021)

The Greek Revolution was both a pivotal moment for the development of modern liberal democracy, as well as for wider international dialogue on law, intervention and self-determination. Ultimately, originated from these dialogues, this chapter reflects on the profoundness of the Greek War of Independence and its significant role in the development o...

This chapter explores the 1822 Chios Massacre, where 100,000 Chiots were killed, enslaved or displaced, and the subsequent coerced diaspora it produced. Scholars of the Greek War of Independence have previously acknowledged that the massacre was a pivotal moment in the war, although few have elaborated significantly on its long-term outcomes. This...

This chapter explores the literature on the Greek War of Independence over the last 200 years and introduces the overarching aims and themes of the volume—new perspectives, myths, realities, legacies, and reflections. It establishes the various schools of thought and the more recent trends in research, before showing how the current volume builds o...

This book marks the 200-year anniversary of uprisings in the Ottoman Balkans between February and March 1821, which became known in the West as the beginnings of the Greek War of Independence (1821–1832), and led to the formation of the modern Greek state. It explores the war and its impact on societies involved by delving into the myths that surro...

The Port Pirie Greek community was a nexus of early Greek emigration to South Australia and continues to thrive. The community hosts frequent events, with fortnightly Saturday dinners and Sunday luncheons being reintroduced in 2021. 1 The Greek Orthodox Church of St George on Florence Street, which replaced the original wooden church on David Stree...

This article explores two ‘heretical’ movements, the Paulicians and Tondrakians, both of which originated in medieval Armenia and subsequently spread throughout the Byzantine Empire. These movements became the target of elites from both Armenian and Byzantine power structures and, as a result, acolytes were subject to excommunications, forced reset...

Review(s) of: Wild colonial Greeks, by Peter Prineas, Arcadia/Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2020, pbk, ISBN 9781922454133, vii + 322 pp, $34.95.

Angelakis, George (1920–1993), fisherman and seafood merchant, was born on 18 December 1920 on the Greek Dodecanese island of Symi, then under Italian administration, eldest of three children of Michael (Mick) Angelakis, fisherman, and his wife Anna (Anika), née Clada. George was descended from a line of fishermen, sponge divers, and shipwrights. H...

Historia Newsletter, Volume 32.

This article explores early British Christian-humanitarianism towards the Greeks following the 1822 Chios Massacre. Scholars of the Greek revolution have previously acknowledged the massacre as a pivotal moment for British attitudes towards the Greeks, although few have elaborated significantly on this humanitarian shift. This article focuses on wh...